IRC started in 1988 when Jarkko Oikarinen created a real-time chat protocol 🌐 It soon grew into major networks like EFnet (1990) and Undernet (1992), shaping online communities long before social media.
Here's a May 1993 memo by J. Oikarinen and D. Reed about IRC protocol that defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community: https://archive.org/details/rfc1459
![1.1 Servers
The server forms the backbone of IRC, providing a point to which clients may connect to to talk to each other, and a point for other servers to connect to, forming an IRC network. The only network configuration allowed for IRC servers is that of a spanning tree [see Fig. 1] where each server acts as a central node for the rest of the net it sees.](https://mastodon.archive.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/705/448/658/898/237/original/e3d24f7d348641af.jpeg "1.1 Servers
The server forms the backbone of IRC, providing a point to which clients may connect to to talk to each other, and a point for other servers to connect to, forming an IRC network. The only network configuration allowed for IRC servers is that of a spanning tree [see Fig. 1] where each server acts as a central node for the rest of the net it sees.")
https://feminisminindia.com/2021/11/09/ncert-manual-gender-sensitive-trans-inclusive-approaches-to-education/
Even if it ends up only text on paper that is never read, its affirmation that needs to exist.
fucking bring back the _concept_ of gender inclusive education
#voyagynx, a tiny #travelynx client written in Flutter !
And : #Accessibility should begin with the first lines of codes, it's not a nice to have but the foundation of sustainable software !
CC: @derf
Here's my terrible attempt at writing propaganda on college walls lol
#ditchwindows #linux #fedora #fedoralinux #vandalismbutnotreally
Contributions to Debian by Freexian Collaborators in the last month include updating 'Austin', continuing the preparations for DebConf 25 and more!
You can read all about it in our monthly report here:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-05-2025/
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/) for making this possible.
People say mastodon is too hard to explain to non-technical people, but I explained it the other day to someone extremely non-technical by just saying "it's decentralised. so instead of being run by one company, it's run by whoever wants to run their own version of it. This way there's no profit incentive, no algorithm and no ads" and she immediately understood what I meant, and why that would be a good thing.
You don't really need to explain federation and all the underlying tech to explain people what it is. Even federation is simple to explain. "anyone can run their own version of it - but they can all still talk to each other"
New computer with Windows pre-installed? Want to install #Linux 🐧 instead?
You pay for #Windows, even if you don’t use it. That’s unfair and non-transparent.
#Refund4Freedom from @fsfe & @ItaLinuxSociety defends your right to get refunds for unused pre-installed software! 😎
The campaign starts in #Italy 🇮🇹 but will later be extended.
FSFE & ILS support your right to choose your operating system. They also support #EndOf10 to prevent e-waste!
Rant aside, given I'll buy a new one anyways, anyone using low flow / environmentally friendly shower heads? how do they feel? Anything I could buy locally for cheap? I love showers, Id rather continue enjoying them.